China increases antidumping duties on chloroprene rubber from Japan

8:49 AM MDT | July 29, 2013 | Deepti Ramesh

The Chinese government says that the Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom; Beijing) has decided to increase antidumping duties on chloroprene rubber imported from Japan to 20.8%, starting 26 July. China had originally imposed antidumping duties ranging from 2% to 151% on chloroprene rubber imported from Japan, the European Union, and the United States for five years starting May 2005, and China extended these antidumping measures for another five years, starting 10 May 2011. The decision to increase the antidumping duty on chloroprene rubber from Japan is based on...